| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction: Bodies that Leak: American Masculinity and Anti-Prophylactic Citizenship -- "An Inherent Weakness of the Constitution": Jack London's Revolting Men -- "Love or Eugenics?": Faulkner and Fitzgerald's Crip Children -- "Not the Usual Pattern": James Baldwin and the DSM -- Post-AIDS Permeability: Samuel Delany and Anti-Prophylaxis -- Prescribing Pleasure: Asexuality, Debility, and Trans Memoir -- Epilogue: Against Queer Resilience |
| Summary |
"This work revisits canonical works of American literature, as well as more recent works, in order to argue that while we tend to understand queerness and disability as posing a crisis to masculinity, for many writers, these categories serve as vital resources for thinking through and constructing American masculinity"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 06, 2019) |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Masculinity in literature.
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Canon (Literature)
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American literature
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Canon (Literature)
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Masculinity in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2018059192 |
| ISBN |
9781439915080 |
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1439915083 |
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